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Lead Stories: Friday, November 21, 2008

Doha & Istanbul Will Host World Indoor Champs In 2010 and 2012

Posted November 24th, 2007 at 4:50 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field

On the second day of its meeting in Monaco, the IAAF Council agreed a number of hosts for future events.

There were two candidates for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the second most important competition on the IAAF calendar, Doha, Qatar and Istanbul, Turkey. Following excellent presentations from the two candidates, a question and answer session, Council voted, and the winner was Doha, host of the 2006 Asian Games.

However, due to the excellence of the Istanbul candidature, Council also agreed to award that city the 2012 edition of the same competition.

“These were clearly two top class candidates demonstrating not only excellent facilities and organizational capabilities but outstanding levels of support from public authorities,” said IAAF President Lamine Diack. “I am glad that Council agreed that we should take this opportunity to ensure that the next two editions of the World Indoor Championships would help us in our aims to universalize our sport.”
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